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The Present and Future of Arm and AWS Graviton at Honeycomb

Honeycomb’s early look into the performance of Amazon’s C7g instances powered by newly released AWS Graviton3 Processors.

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P99 CONF Speakers Pique Your Interest in Low-Latency Tech Talks

P99 CONF (Oct 19 & 20) is now just days away. Hear what the speakers are most excited to share — and learn.

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Low-Latency Distributed Data Strategies at P99 CONF: SQL, NoSQL & Event Streaming

SQL and NoSQL, in-memory and persistent stores, transactional workloads and analytical data lakehouses — P99 CONF will be covering all this and more.

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Is a Rust Rewrite Really Worth It?

“Is a Rust rewrite really worth it” is not just a tongue twister. It’s a dilemma keeping engineers awake at night. Will the potential performance gains be worth all the effort of wrestling with a fast-growing language that is extremely well-loved, but not (yet) all that commonly used? Of course, there’s no simple answer to …

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The Observability and eBPF Buzz at P99 CONF 2022

A look at the observability and eBPF talks on the agenda for P99 CONF, featuring free access to the insights of luminaries like Liz Rice, Charity Majors, and Alex Hidalgo.

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Avi Kivity: A Window Into Database Operations from the Disk’s Perspective

Avi Kivity’s first-of-its-kind journey into what IO heavy database workloads look like from the perspective of a fast NVMe SSD — like the NVMe-based Nitro SSDs featured in new AWS EC2 I4i instances.

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9 Books by P99 CONF 2022 Speakers: Go, SLOs, eBPF, Databases & More

P99 CONF 2022 speakers have amassed a rather impressive list of publications, including quite a few books. This blog highlights 9 of them.

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Bryan Cantrill on Rust and the Future of Low-Latency Systems

Why Bryan believes the future of low-latency systems will include Rust programs in some surprising places.

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Wasmtime: Supporting UDFs in ScyllaDB with WebAssembly

P99CONF speaker Piotr Sarna shares how you can use Wasm to call user-defined functions when querying the database and reveals what Wasm projects are next on ScyllaDB engineering roadmap.

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